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half-baked
[ haf-beykt, hahf- ]
adjective
- insufficiently cooked.
- not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared:
a half-baked proposal for tax reform.
- lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.
half-baked
adjective
- insufficiently baked
- informal.foolish; stupid
- informal.poorly planned or conceived
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of half-baked1
Example Sentences
Eating the rich has never been quite so putrid a task as watching “Death of a Unicorn,” a truly toothless satire that I’d struggle to even deem “half-baked.”
All of their songs, whether fully realized or half-baked, were dutifully logged by McCartney into an exercise book he had swiped from school.
It can project strength without some hypocritical and destructive occupation or invasion, or a half-baked “nation-building” disaster.
Trump’s unfit nominee for Defense secretary gets the benefit of an incomplete, half-baked and secret FBI report.
And Rundell maintains that there are things we can still do to save these magical, breathtaking creatures: Vote, invest carefully, protest, educate, consume less, refuse to give in to “half-baked nihilism.”
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